After welcoming over 350,000 visitors, Milan’s Salone del Mobile closed its doors yesterday. As preparations for next year’s edition of the annual furniture fair are undoubtedly already underway, the city braces for an even bigger event in 2015 that is anticipated to bring 20 million pilgrims to the design capital over the course of six months.
Expo Milano 2015 will take place from May 1 to October 31, 2015. Though its pavilions will cover over 10 million square feet in a strategic area of the city between Malpensa airport and the Rho fairgrounds where the furniture fair just ended, the world’s next universal exposition is prioritizing immaterial legacies, leaving behind not a heritage of imposing architecture like the Eiffel Tower from the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, for instance, but guidelines for tackling the challenges of the next millennium.
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